cupra wrote:

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArti...toryID=7178847

"COLOMBO (Reuters) - A huge earthquake hit southern Asia on Sunday,
setting
off a tsunami that drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent
Indonesians
rushing to high ground and washed away bathers on the Thai tourist
island of
Phuket. "

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ISTR watching a programme about Tsunamis warning about this sort of
disaster
for underdeveloped areas without mass communications.

Yes, I understand it was 8.5 on the richter scale and many hundreds of
folk are dead, but I think the BBC radio presenters should refrain from
making statements to the effect that "it could not have come at a worse
time, when thousands of Europeans are on holiday over there". (heard on
5 live this morning).